Frank Capra's timeless parable of innocence and corruption was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1940 including Best Picture. Lewis Foster's Oscar-winning original story recounts the odyssey of small town idealist Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), who is unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. But when he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, he threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Mr. Smith must prove his innocence on the floor of the Senate, in one of Capra's most rousing finales.